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Linux Best Practices

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Imagine the typo sudo rm -rf /

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The order of flags don't matter on the rm command, so rm -rf == rm -fr

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